When a German construction unit arrives at the French village of Petite Vigne to build a flak battery, its inhabitants are forced to face the war they had kept at bay for four years. Will they settle for an undeclared truce with the occupiers? Opt to resist? Or will collaborators rise from their midst?

With Nazi bombs falling from the sky, reluctant immortal Daniel Leland finds himself in an uncomfortable position. A halfhearted employee of the British government, threatened into submission, he is made to use his peculiar talent for murder in the service of the Crown. But as the missions become impossibly challenging, that talent is tested. Even dead things can die again.